barnabask

SEEKING WORK | NYC area or remote

Experienced full-stack developer with an emphasis on TypeScript/Node/Vue, available 20-30 hours/week.

Resume: https://barnabas.me/cv/

Email: barnabas.kendall@gmail.com

I started this side project originally to answer that same question: https://www.dbaasreview.com/

Someone else mentioned Fly.io, have a look at Render too.

Maybe "scrambled".

Similar: https://fontsource.org/

I bet you are going to be so happy to hear about https://maplibre.org then.

Really looking forward to our AIP Project Implementation, or API.

In your question you didn’t put any specific reasons why you think it’s a good idea to open source your project. There may be certain immediate benefits, such as the discipline it would force you in to. There are big downsides too, such as the distraction of bug triage or code reviews taking you away from focusing on growing your business.

Until you decide, why not work on project as if it was already open source (PRs, unit tests, documentation, etc.) without actually opening it up, and see how it feels first? If the hassle of keeping it going feels like too much when you’re by yourself, that would be valuable to know before you involve others.

“First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?”

I understand the need for launching with GitHub integration only, really. It's probably 2020 table stakes for launching a hosting platform, ticking the "up and running in 5 minutes" requirement checkbox. (See also: Digital Ocean's recently launched App Platform, same situation.)

But many of us walked away from GitHub and embraced GitLab in the last few years, probably a big wave in 2018. As far as I can tell, there's not a publicly documented non-GitHub way to interact with Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare folks: if you can't launch with a full GitLab integration that's understandable, but I'm tired of sitting these things out because they can only launch in simple mode. For my part, I'd rather fuss around with .gitlab-ci.yml now than start a project on my old GitHub account and deal with unknown migration pains later.

Going by blog posts, 1.17 was released 2019-12-09, 1.18 was released 2020-03-25, 1.19 was released 2020-08-26, and 1.20 was released 2020-12-08 (today). Great cadence.

AWS EKS seems to support major versions six or seven months later. Support for 1.17 was announced 2020-07-13, 1.18 was announced 2020-10-13. I'm guessing we can plan for 1.20 support on EKS around June of 2021. No judgement, just an observation.

2017 article: https://open.nytimes.com/publishing-with-apache-kafka-at-the...

Here's a few besides Heroku I'm keeping an eye on:

* https://render.com/

* https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/

* https://www.koyeb.com/ (announced today)

* https://vercel.com/

Man this needs more attention, cool project. I see you tried to submit to HN a couple of times and didn't get traction, that's too bad. Don't give up!

https://mcbroken.com/ is fine right now

Your comment calls to mind the paperclip maximizer thought experiment: https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer

There’s a section about the specific ways software engineers rely on their memory. I would really like to hear more about that, but for other jobs. I assume legal and medical professionals rely heavily on their memories for example, but is that really true, or is it even true in the ways I expect?

Did you consider going to work for the large litigation-prone competitor?

Gorgeous, thank you. This appears to be the first of several releases of film art, starting with more recent films. Looking forward to seeing my favorite oldies in the future. (If you’re confused like I was at first, click on each movie poster to see a full gallery of art from that particular movie.)

I wouldn’t say this is “free for use” in the sense of an open license, just free to use within the bounds of common sense: 常識の範囲でご自由にお使いください。

Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli does amazing stuff, artistically and technically.

Maybe the word “open” has a new meaning of “not open”, much like the word “literally” can now sometimes mean “not literally”.

Leading to the ironic scenario where your final gig is to evict yourself.

Same here, but with US postal codes. Having grown up on the west coast I didn't realize some started with a zero until embarrassingly late in life.

I'm interested in the managed DB part of this writeup, specifically that OP chose Lightsail. The last time I looked into it, Lightsail was MySQL only, so that was good to know.

I wrote a PostgreSQL DBaaS Calculator that got some traction here a while ago, and I just updated it this evening to add Lightsail to see how it stacks up: https://barnabas.me/articles/postgres-dbaas.html#calculator

No surprise, Lightsail is similar pricing to RDS with a 1-year commitment, but it's month-to-month. It's a pretty good deal until you need more than 8 GB memory, 240 GB storage, 2 cores ($115/month Standard plan). But Azure or AWS RDS are the ones to beat.

This is like the real-world version of applying a userContent.css file to patch a UX flaw in a web application, except in this case he patched a UX flaw in the freeway.

As users of web applications and freeways, I think we tend to overestimate our expertise in designing solutions to the things that annoy us. This story had a happy outcome because the expert user was careful and competent. Thankfully the barrier to entry for submitting patches is relatively high.

Since the TC article is a paywalled interview about the study, I found the actual study more interesting: https://builtformars.co.uk/banks/

Mapbox is awesome, but there are alternatives for hobby projects, such as https://www.maptiler.com/. I wrote about some more here: https://barnabas.me/articles/webmaps.html#map-tile-servers-a...

If your project is confined to a limited geographic area and you don’t need super high zoom levels, you could even host the static tiles yourself without too much trouble and disk space. It can be very cost effective.

All of the app-generator repos are the same, as far as I can tell: https://github.com/app-generator

What gives?

Top highlight: "When the execs are extremely smart people making ten times what you do, there’s a tendency to give them the benefit of the doubt." So true. Even with concrete data to back up an unpopular opinion, one tends to second-guess themselves with wealthy executives. There are political ramifications too.

I wonder if Amazon Aurora is what you’re looking for: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/

Does anyone have any real world experience with this, in comparison to these more traditional DBaaS offerings? Not sure if it’s a practical contender at a smaller scale.

The calculator doesn't factor in IOPS, and that's good to know, thanks. I just wanted a blunt tool to get a feel for these vendors' price points at least using the common denominators of memory, CPU, and storage. I could be wrong.

Fixed that just now, thank you!